Looking at that patch again, I guess it leads to some inefficiency on non-IA64 systems. I will throw #ifdef IA64 around it if people think it's necessary, but I don't like to clutter code with #ifdefs that aren't essential. 2000-06-19 Andrew Haley <aph@cygnus.com> * os_dep.c (read): Pass two dummy args to syscall(). Andrew.